396 NOTE ON AN UNDETERMINED SPECIES OF LALAGE, 



The twenty examples received from Thursday Island do not 

 differ either in markings or sculpture from those found so 

 plentifully at Cape York and Albany Island, North Australia . 



Note on an undetermined species of Lalage. 

 By E. P. Kamsay, F.L.S., &c. 



Lalage. 



Lores, and all the upper surface of the head, neck, back, wings, 

 and tail, black, with a faint greenish-metallic gloss, primary 

 coverts and shoulders black ; median coverts white, with black 

 shaft-line ; secondary coverts black, with white tips ; scapulars 

 more white than black ; inner secondaries black, with a white 

 margin, becoming very narrow towards the tips, a scarcely 

 perceptible line of white margining the median portion of the 

 outer web of some of the inner primaries ; wings below blackish- 

 brown, a band of black on the under margin, a few of the 

 feathers mottled with white, rest of the under coverts and the 

 basal portion of all the quills white on the inner webs, the white 

 on each ending abruptly about the middle of the feathers, except 

 on the primaries where it is of less extent. Chin, sides of the 

 face, below the eye, lower half of the ear-coverts, a linear spot 

 on the lower eyelid, and the whole of the under surface and under 

 the tail-coverts white ; the bases of the feathers of the body slaty ; 

 bill, black ; legs, bluish-black. Bump, ashy-grey, tipped with 

 white ; upper tail-coverts, dark bright ashen-grey, slightly darker 

 along the shafts ; tail black ; the outer three feathers on either 

 side largely tipped with white, the fourth with a very narrow 

 margin of white at the tip. Total length (in the flesh) 7 inches ; 

 wing, 3'3 ; tail, 3*2 ; tarsus, 1 inch ; bill from forehead, 0-75 ; 

 from nostril, 0*45. 



